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'Fiona Rae' (born 1963) is a British artist and one of the ''Young British Artists'' (YBAs). She is a painter.
She was born in Hong Kong and moved to England in 1970. She attended Croydon College of Art (1983-84) and Goldsmiths College (1984-1987).
She was one of the artists in the seminal ''Freeze'' exhibition curated by Damien Hirst in 1988. Her work was subsequently bought by Charles Saatchi and shown in the major 1997 ''Sensation'' exhibition, which brought ''Britart'' into the establishment, as it was hosted by the Royal Academy, London, before touring abroad. She was nominated for the Turner Prize in 1991, and in 1993 for the Austrian Eliette Von Karajan Prize for Young Painters. She was commissioned by Tate Modern to create a 10 metre triptych ''Shadowland'' for the restaurant there in 2002
Rae is now a Royal Academician and also a Trustee of the Tate Gallery, both significant accolades for the artist.
Her work is abstract, and makes a Postmodern use of a seemingly random assemblage of painterly applications in order to create new and unexpected juxtapositions on the canvas. It is a cool and much more cerebral version of Abstract Expressionism.
In a statement for a 2005 residency at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, she commented [1]

I like lively, heartfelt and witty art that can also be cool and ironic. Doesn't necessarily have to be painting, but that's my favorite thing, partly because I think it's the hardest way to be fresh and original in the 21st century.

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External links

Books

"Fiona Rae/Gary Hume", text by Sarah Kent, The Saatchi Gallery, London, 1997

External links

★ Paintings, list of exhibitions and literature